About us
We built this because we
needed it ourselves.
PETS Vet Placement grew out of the very problem it solves. After years of trying to hire veterinarians for nonprofit clinics across Texas, we found a process that finally worked, and knew we had to put it to work for practices facing the same hardship.
Hiring a veterinarian in the United States is harder than it has any right to be. We know, because we did it the hard way first.
Our team spent years staffing nonprofit clinics, the kind of work where a single unfilled DVM position means real animals going untreated and a community left waiting. We posted. We paid headhunters. We watched doctors take signing bonuses elsewhere.
Eventually we stopped competing for the same shrinking pool and started building relationships with veterinarians who had graduated from AVMA-accredited universities outside the country. These are doctors with the same standard of education as US graduates, who wanted very much to practice here and needed a partner to navigate licensure and immigration with them.
It worked. Then it kept working. PETS Vet Placement exists so that practices across the country can use the same process without having to invent it themselves.
Leslie Harrelson
Founder & Owner
Our vision
A premier placement firm, focused on one field.
We are United States based and focus solely on veterinary medicine. While our specialty is DVM placement, that is not limited to clinics and veterinary offices. Placement also includes the roles veterinarians play in city government, corporate environments, and research facilities. Our specialty is hiring veterinarians for every role they play in communities around our country.
Our mission
Work with professionals on both sides.
In placing veterinarians, we make your search as brief as possible while always keeping an eye on your bottom line. In recruiting, we seek out top-tier talent and help them find opportunities that enhance their careers and improve their quality of life. Whether you need one doctor or several, or you are a veterinarian planning your next move, we would like to be the ones who get it right.
Why it lasts
A happy veterinarian is what makes a placement work.
We know each of our candidates personally. They trust us to find what is right for them, and that trust is exactly why our placements hold. A fair wage and a family feel will win over a large salary with most of our doctors.
Some arrive with families. Some arrive with only their pets. All of them need a practice that will care about them and help them succeed in a brand-new country, and the practices that understand that are the ones that keep their doctors.
Start here
Ready to stop searching?
One conversation tells you whether this is a fit: what your timeline looks like, who is in the pipeline, and what happens next. There is no obligation and nothing to pay to find out.
No obligation
Nothing to sign, nothing to pay to talk.
A real timeline
You leave knowing when a doctor could start.
An honest read
If we can't fill it, we'll tell you in the meeting.